Mystical socialism versus skeptical sarcasm

Today in my class on Marxism, neo-Marxism, post-Marxism we discussed the intellectual origins of the Budapest School and the avatars of humanist dialectics. I mentioned this telltale story: When Georg Lukács said that even the worst socialism was preferable to the best capitalism, Leszek Kołakowski replied: “Ah yes, the advantages of Albania over Sweden are self-evident.”

Images: Georg Lukács (1885-1971) and Leszek Kołakowski (1927-2009)

 

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